Re: Recording test runtimes with the buildfarm

On 6/11/20 12:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:56 PM Andrew Dunstan <
>> andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Yeah, we'll need to work out where to stash the file. The client will
>>> pick up anything in src/regress/log for "make check", but would need
>>> adjusting for other steps that invoke pg_regress. I'm getting close to
>>> cutting a new client release, but I can delay it till we settle this.
>> It seems pretty trivial to for example get all the steps out of check.log
>> and their timing with a regexp.
> Yeah, I don't see why we can't scrape this data from the existing
> buildfarm output, at least for the core regression tests. New
> infrastructure could make it easier/cheaper, but I don't think we
> should invest in that until we've got a provably useful tool.

OK, that makes my life fairly easy. Are you wanting this to be
automated, or just left as an exercise for researchers for now?

cheers

andrew

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